Paris, summer 2020. Actors from “la Comédie-Française”, France’s most prestigious theater, rehearse Christophe Honoré’s new play, an adaptation of Marcel Proust’s “The Guermantes Way”. When the show is suddenly canceled, the drama group decides to go ahead with it anyway, in the name of art and for the joy of acting together.
Paul is preparing to leave Tajikistan, while thinking back on his adolescent years. His childhood, his mother's madness, the parties, the trip to the USSR where he lost his virginity, the friend who betrayed him and the love of his life.
The Forest is both a vibrantly spontaneous and brutally funny family drama, and a glorious tribute to acting and theater - in other words, an Arnaud Desplechin film. With Michel Vuillermoz and Denis Podalydès as the nephew and his friend, Adeline D’Hermy as the niece, and Martine Chevallier in a stunning performance as the sublimely selfish aunt Raissa.
거칠고 땀내 나는 운동경기보다 엄마와의 티타임이 더 즐거운 남자 기욤. 그는 평소 엄마를 완벽한 롤모델로 여기며, 엄마의 모든 행동과 말투, 헤어스타일까지 똑같이 따라하기 위해 노력한다. 그리고 엄마와 친구들 심지어 자신조차 본인을 100% 게이라고 생각하게 되는데… 엄마도 속았다! 나 자신도 몰랐다! 첫 실연을 겪은 기욤은 자신이 정말 남자와 사랑을 할 수 있는지 궁금해지고, 몇 번의 의미 있는 도전(?) 끝에 자신은 남자가 아닌 여자를 좋아한다는 사실을 깨닫는다. 그리고 드디어 그는 엄마에게 기막힌 커밍아웃을 하기로 결심하는데… “엄마, 사실 나는 여자가 좋아요!” 과연 기욤의 반전 커밍아웃은 성공할 수 있을까…?
At Versailles, the last rehearsal of a play, ordered to molière by Louis XIV the king. Staged in their own characters, actors and author display their art's conception. It is, too, the opportunity for them to answer by irony to their detractors.
The Venetian performance world is on the alert: an impresario is looking for talent to stage what he defines as the most beautiful opera of his time. Everyone goes there from their pushy little merry-go-round to attract the favors of the character and extricate themselves from misery. But the main interested party hardly seems to be sensitive to these effects.
